Out of the past 3/6/09

25 years ago: March 6, 1984

Douglas Wayne Thompson's third jury trial stemming from the shooting death of a Cape Girardeau auxiliary police officer 23 years ago has been reset for April 2 in Scott County Circuit Court at Benton, Mo.

Voters in the Oak Ridge School District turn out in near record numbers to approve a $350,000 general obligation bond issue to finance construction of a high school addition.

50 years ago: March 6, 1959

Groundbreaking ceremonies were conducted Sunday morning at Second Baptist Church for a one-story education building to be added to the southeast corner of the church; work on the structure is being done for the most part by men of the congregation, and it is expected to be completed by June.

The Harris Motor Car Co., 232 Broadway, has been given the franchise to handle the "Jeep" family of four-wheel drive vehicles.

75 years ago: March 6, 1934

L.A. O'Howell has been awarded the contract for the next six months to collect garbage in Cape Girardeau; he offered to take the contract for no remuneration but the garbage; he will sublet the contract to different collectors; the new contract specifies that the garbage must be fed to hogs outside the city limits.

Two new Civil Works Administration projects at Teachers College are expected to receive approval shortly; they are the enlarging of a tunnel between the college heating plant north of Academic Hall and the home economics-agriculture building near Henderson Avenue, and grading down of the site near Henderson Avenue where the old open water reservoir, formerly used by Missouri Utilities Co., is located.

100 years ago: March 6, 1909

Sen. R.B. Oliver is too busy with his law practice to take a mission from the Missouri Senate to assist in revising the statutes of the state; he was one of three lawyers appointed to serve with three appointed by the lower house on a board of revision; he was to derive $10 per day for his services.

Bowman Brothers, real estate agents, have sold the property of C.A. Macom on South Benton street to D.B. Corbin of Zalma, Mo., who will move his family into it soon.

-- Sharon K. Sanders